Posts Tagged ‘based-on-true-story’

Private Parts (1997)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Howard Stern | Robin Quivers | Mary McCormack | Fred Norris | Paul Giamatti | Gary Dell'Abate | Jackie Martling | Carol Alt | Richard Portnow | Kelly Bishop | Henry Goodman | Jonathan Hadary | Paul Hecht | Allison Janney | Michael Murphy
Directors: Betty Thomas
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Having always wanted to be a disc-jockey, Howard Stern works his way painfully from radio at his 1970’s college to a Detroit station. It is with a move to Washington that he hits on an outrageous off-the-wall style that catches audience attention. Despite his on-air blue talk, at home he is a loving husband. He needs all the support he can get when he joins NBC in New York and comes up against a very different vision of radio.

Gallipoli (1981)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History | War
Countries: Australia
Actors: Mark Lee | Bill Kerr | Harold Hopkins | Charles Lathalu Yunipingli | Heath Harris | Ron Graham | Gerda Nicolson | Mel Gibson | Robert Grubb | Tim McKenzie | David Argue | Brian Anderson | Reg Evans | Jack Giddy | Dane Peterson
Directors: Peter Weir
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A promising track star’s running career is interrupted by Australia’s entrance into World War I. Archy is an excellent candidate for the Olympics, and coached by his Uncle Jack - “How fast can you run?” “As fast as a leopard!” - he nonetheless abandons his athletic pursuits in order to do the patriotic thing - join up.

Chariots of Fire (1981)

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History | Sport
Countries: UK
Actors: Nicholas Farrell | Nigel Havers | Ian Charleson | Ben Cross | Daniel Gerroll | Ian Holm | John Gielgud | Lindsay Anderson | Nigel Davenport | Cheryl Campbell | Alice Krige | Dennis Christopher | Brad Davis | Patrick Magee | Peter Egan
Directors: Hugh Hudson
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The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic committee. A compromise is reached when a nobleman allows Eric to compete in his 400 meter slot. Eric and Harold win their respective races and go on to achieve fame as missionary and businessman/athletic advocate, respectively.

Serpico (1973)

Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Al Pacino | John Randolph | Jack Kehoe | Biff McGuire | Barbara Eda-Young | Cornelia Sharpe | Tony Roberts | John Medici | Allan Rich | Norman Ornellas | Edward Grover | Albert Henderson | Hank Garrett | Damien Leake | Joseph Bova
Directors: Sidney Lumet
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Frank Serpico is a young, inexperienced cop who starts out on patrol. Later, he starts to work as an undercover cop who busts all sorts of criminals, but mostly drug dealers and pushers. Since Serpico is a young man living in the 70’s, he lives as one. His image, based on how others look on him, shows him as just a ‘hippie’ and the criminals he busts have no idea he is really an undercover officer. Everything is working out well, except the money situation. Serpico refuses to accept money, as the other officers do. He feels this isn’t right, and wants to expose the situation. Who he thought were his friends now turn into his enemies when Serpico takes the stand on a grand jury investigation. He continues to work undercover, and his life is placed into jeopardy at the hands of his colleagues.

Schindler’s List (1993)

Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Ben Kingsley | Ralph Fiennes | Caroline Goodall | Jonathan Sagall | Embeth Davidtz | Malgoscha Gebel | Shmuel Levy | Mark Ivanir | Béatrice Macola | Andrzej Seweryn | Friedrich von Thun | Krzysztof Luft | Harry Nehring | Norbert Weisser
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.

The Elephant Man (1980)

Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | John Hurt | Anne Bancroft | John Gielgud | Wendy Hiller | Freddie Jones | Michael Elphick | Hannah Gordon | Helen Ryan | John Standing | Dexter Fletcher | Lesley Dunlop | Phoebe Nicholls | Pat Gorman | Claire Davenport
Directors: David Lynch
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Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.

Nightstalker (2002)

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Bret Roberts | Joseph McKelheer | Roxanne Day | Julian Garcia | Christine Long | Mikal Kartvedt | Ana Mercedes | Roselyn Sanchez | Danny Trejo | Derek Hamilton | Evan Parke | Brandi Emma | A.J. Buckley | Douglas Spain | Aimee Graham
Directors: Chris Fisher
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The night sets over Los Angeles and the NIGHTSTALKER speeds through downtown, smoking crack and searching for prostitutes, he finds both. After realizing he can’t get what he wants from women, he sets off to feed his unholy hunger by heading into the suburbs of East Los Angeles where he murders and rapes a young woman as she sleeps in her house. Five days later, a young and beautiful beat cop, GABRIELLA MARTINEZ and her older, corrupt partner, FRANK LUIS, answer a call to a home and find the bodies of the young woman and her husband, mutilated and marked by Satanic ritual. Over the next few weeks, the Nightstalker continues his reign of terror and after more gruesome murders, Gabriella Martinez is offered a job on the task force investigating the murders that have kept the city of East Los Angeles in a state of total fear. Although skeptical of the reasons for her promotion, she nevertheless decides to try and make a difference and catch this killer who represents everything that she stands against. LIEUTENANT MAYBERRY and DETECTIVE ELLIOTT, her superiors on the task force, offer her a lukewarm welcome. Distracted by her own life choices, the inappropriate advances of co-workers, and the homelife she has been forced to play the role of patriarch in, she makes an error of judgment by leaking classified information to a young, aggressive reporter, ADRIANNE DELOIA. Suspended from the force, Martinez is visited by her old partner, Luis, who tells her that through some “dirty” policework he found out where the suspect was hiding. Still interested in doing the right thing, Martinez convinces Luis to take her downtown where she learns that the Nightstalker has picked her and the reporter as his next victims. Martinez and the Nightstalker become engaged in a game of cat-and-mouse that ends up with Martinez being force to decide between killing this murderer or letting him be arrested… Deciding to take a new path in her life, she lets him go. The same world which created this monster will now take his life, but she will not poison herself by killing another human being and becoming like him.

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Winona Ryder | Angelina Jolie | Clea DuVall | Brittany Murphy | Elisabeth Moss | Jared Leto | Jeffrey Tambor | Vanessa Redgrave | Whoopi Goldberg | Angela Bettis | Jillian Armenante | Drucie McDaniel | Alison Claire | Christina Myers | Joanna Kerns
Directors: James Mangold
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Susanna is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she discusses this with a psychiatrist. She had been having some delusions. She had also been having an affair with the husband of her parents’ friend. The doctor suggests that combining a bottle of aspirin and a bottle of vodka was a suicide attempt. This she denies. He recommends a short period of rest at Claymoore. Claymoore is a private mental hospital full of noisy, crazy people. Georgina is a pathological liar. Polly has been badly scarred by fire. Daisy won’t eat in the presence of other people. Lisa is a sociopath, the biggest exasperation for the staff - like Nurse Valerie - and the biggest influence on the other girls in the hospital. Lisa has a history of escapes, so gaining access to personal medical files is not a problem… Susanna’s boyfriend Toby is concerned that she seems too comfortable living with her institutionalized friends…

Fly Away Home (1996)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
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Actors: Jeff Daniels | Anna Paquin | Dana Delany | Terry Kinney | Holter Graham | Jeremy Ratchford | Deborah Verginella | Michael J. Reynolds | David Hemblen | Ken James | Nora Ballard | Sarena Paton | Carmen Lishman | Christi Hill | Judith Orban
Directors: Carroll Ballard
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Amy (Anna Paquin) is reunited with her father (Jeff Daniels) after her mother’s death. She withdraws from her new life, and life in general, until she finds a reason to participate in something: the preservation, parenting, and eventual migration-instruction of a flock of orphaned geese.

Lucky Numbers (2000)

Monday, April 27th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: France | USA
Actors: John Travolta | Lisa Kudrow | Tim Roth | Ed O'Neill | Michael Rapaport | Daryl Mitchell | Bill Pullman | Richard Schiff | Michael Moore | Sam McMurray | Michael Weston | Maria Bamford | Caroline Aaron | John F. O'Donohue | Colin Mochrie
Directors: Nora Ephron
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Winter, 1988: Harrisburg PA’s celebrity weatherman, Russ Richards, is broke: he’s borrowed heavily to open a snowmobile dealership, and it’s still unseasonably warm. Gig, his seedy pal, advises him to run an insurance scam; when it goes awry, Russ is out another $10,000 and in trouble with Dale, a bat-wielding thug. Gig convinces Russ to rig the state lottery with the help of Crystal, a gold-digging ditz with a heart of tin. They have to find a beard to buy the ticket, and then they have to cash it. Soon, murder and various double-crosses add to Russ’s nightmare. A lazy cop zeroes in. Jail is closer than riches. Will Russ have to choose between his money and his life?

From Hell (2001)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Heather Graham | Ian Holm | Robbie Coltrane | Ian Richardson | Jason Flemyng | Katrin Cartlidge | Terence Harvey | Susan Lynch | Paul Rhys | Lesley Sharp | Estelle Skornik | Nicholas McGaughey | Annabelle Apsion | Joanna Page
Directors: Albert Hughes
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The infamous Jack the Ripper case set in London of 1888. The Ripper has been running amok in the Whitechapel district murdering and dissecting prostitutes. Scotland Yard Inspector Fred Abberline, aided by his partner, Peter Godley, are on the case to figure out who this serial killer is and why he is killing these women in such a brutal manner. Abberline is an opium addict and when “chasing the dragon” he is able to have visions of the future, a certain psychic ability that allows him to solve cases. As Abberline and Godley investigate the crimes, they become acquainted with the prostitutes who were friends and colleagues of the victims. Abberline begins to fall in love with Mary Kelly, one of the prostitutes, or as the nobles called them “unfortunates”, being hunted down by Jack the Ripper. Abberline digs deeper and deeper into the conspiracy and attempts to solve the case before Mary Kelly is the next victim.

Civil Action, A (1998)

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Robert Duvall | Tony Shalhoub | William H. Macy | Zeljko Ivanek | Bruce Norris | John Lithgow | Kathleen Quinlan | Peter Jacobson | Mary Mara | James Gandolfini | Stephen Fry | Dan Hedaya | David Thornton | Sydney Pollack
Directors: Steven Zaillian
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Jan Schlichtmann is a successful lawyer whose practically his own entrepreneur. He’s a humble bachelor with a nice car, a nice house, and a career that has amassed huge rewards. Not to mention being the founder and practice of the lucrative law firm he runs with his Boston partners, all in a case’s settlement. However, when the families of deceased children sue a giant food conglomerate, with the accusation of their companies are responsible for poisoning their children and afflicting them fatally with cancer. Jan comes to the rescue, thinking it’s one more case he can easily knock out of the park and make a fortune, as well as a name for he and his firm. With a class action lawsuit to file, Jan willingly puts himself and his firm as representatives of those families. However, it’s one case that could ruin Jan: his pride, his ambition, and ultimately, his career. As the pressures of the case begin to take their turn on both the prosecution, the defense, as well as the families, Jan is about to realize that he has taken on the biggest case of his life, and there is a price to pay.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

Monday, April 20th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Johnson | Andrew Prine | Dawn Wells | Jimmy Clem | Jim Citty | Robert Aquino | Cindy Butler | Christine Ellsworth | Earl E. Smith | Steve Lyons | Joe Catalanotto | Roy Lee Brown | Mike Hackworth | Misty West
Directors: Charles B. Pierce
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Set in the late 40’s the residents of Texarkana, Texas are left terrorized by a mysterious hooded killer who is stalking victims during the evening and leaving the local police at a loss.

Cool Runnings (1993)

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Comedy | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Leon | Doug E. Doug | Rawle D. Lewis | Malik Yoba | John Candy | Raymond J. Barry | Peter Outerbridge | Paul Coeur | Larry Gilman | Charles Hyatt | Winston Stona | Bertina Macauley | Pauline Stone Myrie | Kristoffer Cooper | Bill Dow
Directors: Jon Turteltaub
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When the Jamaican sprinter Derice Bannock (Leon) is disqualified to the Olympic Games due to a silly accident, he envision the chance to participate in bobsleigh modality. He meets the dishonored couch Irving Blitzer (John Candy), who is living in the tropical country after two gold medals and elimination due to cheating, and convinces him to couch the first Jamaican Bobsled Team. They form a group with the push-cart driver Sanka Coffie (Doug E. Doug), the sprinter Yul Brenner (Malik Yoba) and the rich Junior Bevil (Rawle D. Lewis) and without any sponsor, fly to Calgary, Alberta, Canada to participate of the XV Olympic Winter Games at -25o C. In the end, they become winners without winning the game.

Milk (2008)

Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Josh Brolin | Emile Hirsch | James Franco | Diego Luna | Brandon Boyce | Kelvin Yu | Lucas Grabeel | Alison Pill | Victor Garber | Denis O'Hare | Howard Rosenman | Stephen Spinella | Ted Jan Roberts | Tom Ammiano
Directors: Gus Van Sant
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Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk’s career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Francisco’s growing gay community, and organizes gays’ purchasing power to build political alliances. He runs for office with lover Scott Smith as his campaign manager. Victory finally comes on the same day Dan White wins in the city’s conservative district. The rest of the film sketches Milk’s relationship with White and the 1978 fight against a statewide initiative to bar gays and their supporters from public school jobs.